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EF 6.1.1 RTM Available – Rowan Miller highlights the release of Entity Framework 6.1.1’s RTM Release, available via Nuget, with a separate tooling download also available for Visual Studio.

Important update to Web Essentials 2013 – Mads Kristensen highlights a necessary update to the Web Essentials Visual Studio Extension required to support the application of Update 3 on Visual Studio 2013

Would you like a MultiDictionary? – Immo Landwerth highlights the latest preview release of the Immutable Collections Library from he .NET Team which adds in a new type ‘MultiDictionary’ into the library. The preview is available as a NuGet Package

It Is Time to Learn JavaScript – Shawn Wildermuth discusses the meteoric rise of JavaScript into being arguably the most important programming language at the moment

Rule of Thumb: Preconditions Should be Public – Craig Gidney discusses the use of Exceptions in code where the failure is expected, and also looks at why you should expose preconditions to success so that calling code can be better informed and aware of what is necessary to consume it.